BY JAMES FARRELL Staff Writer Queens’ Community Board 7 voiced frustration with the city and the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) after no high-level representatives from either... Read more
BY JON CRONIN Editor After the full opening of the Rockaway Beach Boardwalk on July 4 weekend, Queensites have been flocking to the beach, but some community members have become concerned wi... Read more
BY JON CRONIN Staff Writer S&L Green Aerospace Metal, LLC in Flushing will be expanding onto land owned by NYC Economic Development Corporation and City property, after unanimous Borough... Read more
BY LYNN EDMONDS Staff Writer If mute swans could talk, they might be singing the praises of State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside). The senator was recognized by the Humane Society of the United... Read more
BY YVETTE BROWN Staff Writer East River Ferry service may be making a second landing in Long Island City. Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan (D-Sunnyside) recently wrote a letter to the commissio... Read more
BY DANIEL OFFNER Staff Writer The City Economic Development Corporation approached members of Community Board 2, last Thursday, to request a letter of support for a proposed art installation... Read more
BY DANIEL OFFNER1 Staff Writer Queens Borough President Melinda Katz met with developers and community stakeholders on April 16, to discuss the disposition of two parcels of property in Coll... Read more
BY DANIEL OFFNER Staff Writer Community Board 7 voted 33 to 3 Monday night to deny the sale of two property parcels – one owned by the City, the other owned by the Economic Development Corpo... Read more
BY JACKIE STRAWBRIDGE Staff Writer A cooperative of auto shops that long stood on the dusty peripherals of Citi Field settled a lawsuit in March will facilitate their move, en-masse, to Hunt... Read more
BY JACKIE STRAWBRIDGE Staff Writer The City Economic Development Corporation is seeking consultants to study the feasibility of developing Sunnyside Yards. A Request for Proposals, which clo... Read more
BY JORDAN GIBBONS Staff Writer Throughout the year, five businesses on Sutphin Boulevard will start to implement façade improvement projects thanks to a Dept. of Small Business Services and... Read more
BY JORDAN GIBBONS Staff Writer As the heads of City agencies packed into York College on Nov. 22 to collaborate with the community on building a combined vision for Jamaica, Kyle Kimball, Pr... Read more
BY JORDAN GIBBONS Staff Writer Borough President Melinda Katz’s office and Mayor Bill De Blasio’s administration have been reaching out to the greater Jamaica community for months to create... Read more
BY JACKIE STRAWBRIDGE Staff Writer The Mattone Group, a real estate development company based in College Point, is busy working on a number of sites in the Borough. One development in the wo... Read more
BY TRISHA SAKHUJA Staff Writer After much back and forth, 47 auto shops will relocate from the Willets Point Iron Triangle to a 34,000-square-foot warehouse at Hunts Point in the Bronx. Marc... Read more
BY TRISHA SAKHUJA Staff Writer Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s development plan to build a mega mall at Willets Point was approved by the City Council on Oct. 9. The $3 billion development project... Read more
BY JOE MARVILLI The much-anticipated Flushing Commons project will begin construction this fall, splitting the effort into two phases to minimize disruption to the community. The mixed-use d... Read more
BY STEVEN J. FERRARI The $3 billion plan to clean up and develop the Iron Triangle at Willets Point is ready to step right up and meet the public. On Monday, the City Planning Commission cer... Read more
BY AARON RUTKOFF The site of the former Flushing Airport, one of the last undeveloped spaces in New York City, will be sold to a group that plans to transform the long-dormant area into a wh... Read more
BY NICK BUGLIONE Before there was a LaGuardia Airport, there was a little field in Flushing that brought Queens to the forefront of aviation and raised its visitors to touch the sky by plane... Read more
